Newsweek says, keep your PS2 don´t go for the x-box!!

Newsweek?  I could have told you all that!

Originally posted by QuDDus
And News week opinions matter because.....................? And seeing how ps2 doesn\'t have a game on it\'s roster rite now that looks close to project ego. I can see where the xbox graphics over shadow the competition.
 

Yeah you would be 100% correct if WE LIVED IN A UNIVERSE WHERE FINAL FANTASY did not exsist

P.S.

is it just me or dose MM realy work for NEWSWEEK

I have a plan.
Get a job and buy every console that comes out.
Works for me.

Ace

Originally posted by ooseven


Yeah you would be 100% correct if WE LIVED IN A UNIVERSE WHERE FINAL FANTASY did not exsist

P.S.

is it just me or dose MM realy work for NEWSWEEK

Whoa.  I am not putting down either title but beyond them both being in the same genre there is really no common ground to compare the two.

Eh?


Newsweek sounds pretty fanboyish if you ask me. They don\'t know video games all that well. They are basically going by the fact that Sony has the biggest installed user base. I bet that is what they are going by. Anyways newsweek=:rolleyes:

Originally posted by QuDDus
And News week opinions matter because.....................?

Originally posted by AlteredBeast
we all know how much Newsweek knows about games...

Originally posted by DaRkGaMeR
They don\'t know video games all that well.

This could go both ways.  Sure, they might not know anything about video games, but for all we know the person writing this could be a Sony fanboy, or they could be a completely unbiased gamer.  But lets say that they don\'t know anything about video games.  If this was the case, then their opinion represents the casual gamer\'s opinion (AKA, most of the gaming-world\'s opinion) very well.  They base their opinion of gaming systems by the games that they see and play.  That is why this article means so much, and why it could be disastrous for Microsoft.

Originally posted by DaRkGaMeR
They are basically going by the fact that Sony has the biggest installed user base. I bet that is what they are going by.

I guess you forgot to read the article.  Here are some key points:

The result: a game console that’s expensive to manufacture, a bulky, awkward controller that few seem to like and an underwhelming lineup of launch games.

Microsoft’s football game NFL Fever looks sharp and plays dull. And here’s proof that on Xbox, as with every system before, the reality never lives up to the rhetoric: all the games exhibit jagged lines and slowdown—despite the Xboys’ statements that such problems would be relics of the past.

The biggest thing: they were not impressed with the games on the Xbox.  They were not impressed that the system that Microsoft claimed was 3 times as powerful as the PS2 only looked slightly better than what we\'ve seen on the PS2.  What makes you think that they are basing their opinion on Sony\'s userbase?

Newsweek sounds pretty fanboyish if you ask me.

If they don\'t like what they see on the Xbox of course they are fanboys.  There\'s no other logical explanation. :rolleyes:

Newsweek doesn\'t like the Xbox games, or Xbox controller. Big  deal, who is going to go by that? Not to many people. I read the article very briefly.  That is why i said what i said. I basically read the first 3 sentences, and stopped from there. Anyways, I\'ll retract what i said about them basing the article on their hands on with the Xbox. Anyone is entitled to their own opipion. So, I\'ll take back what i said.


Btw, Ironfist, you hate me don\'t you?

Originally posted by DaRkGaMeR
Newsweek doesn\'t like the Xbox games, or Xbox controller. Big  deal, who is going to go by that? Not to many people.

If that is the only article you read about the Xbox, don\'t you think it would pursuade your dicision to ever buy an Xbox?  A lot of casual gamers don\'t read every review and every magazine/newspaper article.  If they only saw that one, they would immediately think the Xbox sucks (which I disagree with).  Now what if other news magazines start saying the same thing?  That would be very bad for the Xbox.

Btw, Ironfist, you hate me don\'t you?

Heck no.  I don\'t know you near well enough to make an fair opinion about you.  I don\'t like Xbox fanboys and their deluded views of the future (just like some people don\'t like my deluded views of the PS2\'s future ), but I don\'t think you\'re even close to being included in that group.  Right now you are on neutral grounds in my mind.

Originally posted by IronFist

If that is the only article you read about the Xbox, don\'t you think it would pursuade your dicision to ever buy an Xbox?  A lot of casual gamers don\'t read every review and every magazine/newspaper article.  If they only saw that one, they would immediately think the Xbox sucks (which I disagree with).  Now what if other news magazines start saying the same thing?  That would be very bad for the Xbox.


Heck no.  I don\'t know you near well enough to make an fair opinion about you.  I don\'t like Xbox fanboys and their deluded views of the future (just like some people don\'t like my deluded views of the PS2\'s future ), but I don\'t think you\'re even close to being included in that group.  Right now you are on neutral grounds in my mind.

Whoa!

You read my mind. Yeah, I\'m pretty mucn neutral, Xbox hasn\'t really impressed me that much, although i do want to try out 3 launch titles, thats about it. I don\'t see much content on Xbox, now PS2 has plenty of content that screams must buy. Take your avatarr for example, that is one of the must buy games. I\'m not an Xbox fanboy, and i don\'t care who bashes it, or who likes it. As long as i get to play some games.  

Originally posted by ho3j


Whoa.  I am not putting down either title but beyond them both being in the same genre there is really no common ground to compare the two.

sorry but i am a RPG :nut:

SO for me it has to come down to prefrence, Project EGO looks damn fine but FF10 (TO ME) looks better. Also i am a very big Final Fantasy fan so that just about wings it to the in FF favour.

Originally posted by DaRkGaMeR
Newsweek doesn\'t like the Xbox games, or Xbox controller. Big  deal, who is going to go by that?

Sorry to double post but ME

thats the whole idea behind owning a Console (TO PLAY GAMES on)

of corse you are correct thats their opinion and they have every right to have but this is not a totally uncommon opinion within the gaming world.

personally here are the reasons why i don\'t buy a X Box ![list=1]

• I like some of the games (HALO and Project EGO) but there are not enough to warent the purchace of a new console
• The starting price (i am speanding most of my money on PS2 games and soon ADD\'ONS)
• I want to wait a year or more to see what happens (and no i wont trade my PS2 no matter what haapens to SONY)
• Even if i buy a X box i know the ratio for purchaced games will be about 8 to 1 in Sonys Favour
• I hate the Controller FAR TO BIG AND UGLY ! and seeing that i will be using it to actually play the damn games i want it to be confortable espeaually if i use it to play Project EGO to the small houres of the morning !
• Finally a very Vain point (i think the Console it self is too big and but ugly) but hey ill be playing games on it and not looking at the console ! so this is a VERY very very minour point, then again it would be nice if it was the consept desinge (the big CHROME X remeber that one)
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Originally posted by Bossieman
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Now we know where Sony has been spending their money.

Newsweek must be really hard up for money, I wouldn\'t be suprised if they did this to avoid layoffs.

If xbox was as bad as they say in that article, then it wouldn\'t have had a better lineup for launch than what sony did.

I don\'t think newsweek are fanboys, I just think they are wearing moneyhats.  Sony is paying these guys, no doubt.   Sony is afraid that if people buy xbox and it has a big userbase by the end of 2002 that support for the PS2 would be lessoned and I believe this to be true, so Sony is fighting with everything they have (ie square and paying off publications).

As much of you like to pretend xbox isn\'t a big threat at all to Sony, this really validates that they are.

Its like politicians on the video game scene.  Video games are getting far too political nowdays.

Originally posted by ooseven


Sorry to double post but ME

thats the whole idea behind owning a Console (TO PLAY GAMES on)

of corse you are correct thats their opinion and they have every right to have but this is not a totally uncommon opinion within the gaming world.

personally here are the reasons why i don\'t buy a X Box ![list=1]

• I like some of the games (HALO and Project EGO) but there are not enough to warent the purchace of a new console

This all I want to focuse on because you say the games. Ok when ps2 launched the games where crap besides maybe TTT and SSX. bUT based on sega\'s library if you didn\'t have a dreamcast there was no reason to buy a ps2. But that didn\'t stop most of you in here. But soon as xbox launch comes arounds you want to use double standards Jeesh:rolleyes:

Sure they did Docwiz.. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by IronFist

If that is the only article you read about the Xbox, don\'t you think it would pursuade your dicision to ever buy an Xbox?  A lot of casual gamers don\'t read every review and every magazine/newspaper article.  If they only saw that one, they would immediately think the Xbox sucks (which I disagree with).  Now what if other news magazines start saying the same thing?  That would be very bad for the Xbox.

How many gamers do you think look to news week to tell them what console to buy??? I mean if Bossie had not posted nobody would anybody have cared? I mean you saying news magazines in the first place that don\'t know what gaming is. And I think it is all bias because everyone seems to forget that ps2 launched sucked **** but because it was surrouned bye much hype nobody cared.